science vo-cab Word Scramble
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crust | a thin layer of relatively cool rock that forms Earths outer skin. |
feedback loop | sometimes an event is both a cause, or input, and an effect, or output, in the same system, a cyclical process. |
erosion | the removal of soil by water, wind, ice, or gravity, can lead to a positive feedback loop. |
geosphere | is made of all the rock at and below Earth's surface. |
lithosphere | is the hard rock on and just below Earth's surface. |
biosphere | consists of all the planet's living or once-living things and the nonliving parts of the environment with which they interact. |
atmosphere | consists of the layers of gases surounding our planet. |
hydrosphere | encompasses all water-salt, fresh, liquid, ice, and vapor-on Earth's surface, underground, and in the atmosphere. |
mantle | layer of very hot but mostly solid rock. |
core | beneath the lower mantle. |
tectonic plates | as the asthenosphere moves, it drags along large plates of lithosphere called ________. |
landform | features such as mountains (above and beneath the ocean's surface), island, and continents. |
deposition | the depositing of eroded soil at a new location. |
evaporation | the conversion of a substance from a liquid to a gas. |
transpiration | the release of water vapor by plants through their leaves. |
precipitation | water returns from the atmosphere to earth's surface. |
condensation | a change in state from a gas to a liquid. |
aquifers | precipitation soaks down through soil and rock to recharge underground reservoirs. |
groundwater | fresh water found underground. |
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